# call_function() and $bf_FOO()

Don Schwarz (darkowl@darkowl.pr.mcs.net)
Sat, 27 Apr 1996 21:56:40 PDT

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    On Sat, 27 Apr 1996 slayer@kaiwan.com wrote:

    > >I had thought of that, but I assumed this would be taken care of with
    > >DEFAULT_MAX_STACK_DEPTH the same way regular verb calls are.
    > but then the function doesn't get called at all. Say I had a #0:"bf_fileread
    > bf_fileextract bf_filegrep [...]" and had this:
    >
    > [...]
    > return call_function(verb[4..$],@args);
    > endif
    >
    > Yeah, I know this doesn't do permissions checks, but you get the idea,
    > anyway the builtin will never get called since it'll keep calling itself
    > over and over again.
    >
    So?   If this happens, it obviously means something was programmed
    incorrectly and should raise an E_MAXREC.  What else could it do?
                                                       --Dark_Owl